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OPINION - If you want to make London unwelcoming for LGBTQ people, you've picked the wrong city

London is a living, breathing anthology of stories. From Soho to Dalston, every corner whispers tales of those who dared to be different. It’s in these streets that Oscar Wilde once walked, where Virginia Woolf penned her thoughts, and where countless unnamed heroes lived authentically, even when the world wasn’t…

Evening Standard

Once a bestseller, now forgotten – why William by E.H. Young deserves a revisit

In a year filled with centenaries of famous novels, including Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Franz Kafka’s The Trial, another novel also quietly turns 100. William was published in 1925 by the once-celebrated, now largely forgotten, E.H. Young.

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‘Nothing stopped her’: the 136 reasons why Vanessa Bell is breaking free of Bloomsbury

She was the overshadowed member of the iconic group. But now, with a major exhibition not far from the house she turned into a work of art, Bell is finally getting her due. And she’s not the only one

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Tennyson, Virginia Woolf and Jimi Hendrix – all on a car-free trip to the Isle of Wight

The island is easy to reach by ferry and explore by bus, following in the footsteps of everyone from a Victorian poet to a 60s rock star

The Guardian - UK

How To End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner review – the greatest journals since Virginia Woolf’s

The Australian writer’s decision to publish her diaries in her own lifetime – subjecting herself to scorching observations on self-doubt and unravelling marriages – makes for a wonderfully rich and rewarding read

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‘Evict the Charleston Scroungers’: row in Lewes over the Bloomsbury group’s legacy

A debate is raging over the future of a council building used for art exhibitions as public services in the Sussex town are squeezed

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‘A cultural embarrassment’: anger as male sculptor commissioned for statue of suffragist

Planning application reignites row over statue on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile of Elsie Inglis, Scottish suffragist and maternal health pioneer

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Dior enjoys Oscars glow with show of reinvention at Paris fashion week

Fresh from dressing Mikey Madison, Maria Grazia Chiuri draws on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando in new twist on classics

The Guardian - UK

Dior Autumn/Winter 2025: the return of a much-coveted classic

An archival house design makes a comeback

Marie Claire

Christian Dior’s Paris Fashion Week show was an ode to Virginia Woolf and gender fluidity

Maria Grazia Chiuri’s latest collection for Dior took inspiration from the1928 novel Orlando.

The Independent UK

The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – chapter and verse as a weapon of war

A gripping study of the CIA smuggling operation to get banned books behind the iron curtain

The Guardian - UK

Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – art v reality

The award-winning Australian’s deconstruction of the novel form is a rich pleasure

The Guardian - UK

Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – shame, desire and the ghost of Virginia Woolf

A vivid outback tale, an anguished 80s love triangle and real life are cleverly held in play in the Australian novelist’s inventive memoir-novel-essay hybrid

The Guardian - UK

Friday essay: a reinvention of self – the pleasure of literary journeys

In the hiatus that was COVID lockdown, the novelty of “staying put” had a peculiar grace and delight. To limit one’s trajectory to five kilometres meant homing in on the small and the local: the seasonal repetitions of a plant blossoming in a neighbour’s garden, new pale green leaves on…

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Friday essay: Seize the day – Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway at 100

I’m at the park with my daughter, who is jumping in and out of puddles, splashing, shrieking at me (Mum! Look what I can do!), as I read frantically, taking one-handed notes on my phone (Mum! Look at this!). Part of me wishes I could enjoy with her this moment…

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Stuart Turton: ‘I read some Roald Dahl I probably wasn’t ready for’

The crime novelist on the dark side of Dahl, the joy of Virginia Woolf and the comforts of Terry Pratchett

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Fiction to look out for in 2025

An epic family saga, new novels from Natasha Brown and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, plus a David Szalay masterpiece… the coming year looks good

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Sheffield’s museums show how art comes to life when it is connected to place

Institutions in and around the city combine great works with humdrum relics of local life, to fantastic effect

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What Virginia Woolf has in common with the Peepo! baby

What does Peepo!, a popular picture book from the 1980s, have in common with Virginia Woolf’s unfinished wartime memoir? More than a little, as it turns out.

Tom’s Guide

7 best Nicole Kidman movies, ranked

Three decades in, Nicole Kidman continues to be one of the most surprising and vital actors in Hollywood — here are her 7 best movies, ranked

The Guardian - UK

Ouch! Solving the riddle of pain

We all know what hurts, but why is it so difficult to describe? Emma Cook meets the neurologists attempting to answer one of medicine’s hardest questions

The Guardian - AU

The 25 best Australian books of 2024: Helen Garner, Tim Winton, Nam Le and more

Just in time for your Christmas shopping: Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick out the best of the best

The Conversation

Secret twins? A casually brutal biography of Joan Didion and ‘soul mate’ Eve Babitz blurs ethical boundaries, but exhilarates

Lili Anolik admits her first book on Eve Babitz, Hollywood’s Eve, was a way of “driving a stake” through her subject’s heart, hoping to end her self-confessed “unbalanced, fetishistic” obsession with the bohemian LA writer.

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Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – what should a novel look like?

The Miles Franklin winner’s most experimental book yet opens as fiction interrupted by a narrator who starts picking apart her life and feelings about writing

Evening Standard

MaddAdam at the Royal Ballet review: Margaret Atwood's nightmarish dystopia is richly beautiful

3/5 An empathetic reckoning with the end of the world leaves you clinging to dance and music

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